US 12,223,806 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system
Nobutaka Komaki, Tokyo (JP); Kosuke Kuriyama, Tokyo (JP); and Masanori Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to mixi, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by mixi, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/696,864.
Application 17/696,864 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/007089, filed on Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-042385 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0207965 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3288 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3223 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus which accepts a bet for a competition in which a bet is able to be placed on a betting target, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a processor and a storage part, the processor configured to execute a process including:
accepting a designation of the betting target for the competition from a first player;
selecting a second player who places a bet on the same betting target as the betting target designated by the first player from among a plurality of second players who predict outcomes of the competition; and
displaying information indicating the second player selected in the selecting on a terminal of the first player,
wherein the betting target accepted in the accepting includes a first betting target and a second betting target, and
the selecting includes selecting a betting target on the basis of a predetermined condition from the first betting target and the second betting target, and selecting the second player who placed a bet on the same betting target as the selected betting target,
the selecting includes selecting a betting target with higher odds or a betting target with a larger bet amount of the first player from among the first betting target and the second betting target,
the betting target comprises a betting target table, the betting target table comprising (i) names of a plurality of tipsters, (ii) betting types, (iii) betting targets bet on by the plurality of tipsters, (iv) the number of bettors selecting each predicted betting target, and (v) the number of bettors watching a video streamed by the plurality of tipsters, are associated with each other,
the storage part is configured to store a result table including information in which (i) the plurality of tipsters who placed bets on a competition and (ii) win rate records of the respective tipsters are associated with each other, and in response to more tipsters betting on the same betting target as the betting target designated by the bettor than the maximum number of tipsters to be presented, the selecting part selects, from among these tipsters, the maximum number of tipsters to be presented who each have a win rate result, by referencing the result table, and
the win rate result based on the bets of the tipsters made on the same betting target as the betting target designated by the bettor, the selecting part being able to select a tipster with a better win rate record over a tipster with a poorer win rate record, and the result table displaying the win rate in descending order.